Monthly Archives: September 2009

SAGE-AU

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Before heading to the US for Shizzlin’ the Drizzle (okay, it really is just a meeting) I headed to Surfers for SAGE-AU 2009. I previously spoke at a SAGE-AU in Canberra a couple of years ago (Wikipedia tells me that it must have been 2006). This time, I was there speaking on Drizzle. I could only make the conference for a limited amount of time due to having to get to the US for our Drizzle team meeting (I even skipped out on the dinner early as I had to be up very early for catching flights).

The conference was a bit smaller than I would have hoped (I wonder if economic downturn is part of this, or are people finding that they are getting enough benefit from just conferences such as linux.conf.au and/or OSDC).

The dinner was pretty cool though, at Dreamworld and got to ride tower of terror for an hour :) There were also tigers:

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Drizzle Meeting Photos

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I didn’t take many photos at the Drizzle Meeting, although I did take a couple at the end at the Hopvine (just down the road from Brian’s place).

A good read is Brian’s wrap up of the meeting.

But we have (courtesy of Brian):

and a couple I took at the Hopvine:

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The last one there of Lee looks almost scary… strange light, moving subject, all part of the fun :)

It was really good to get a number of people together and chat. In future, we’ll no doubt have larger gatherings that are really inclusive.